Method of staying button-holes



(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1. S. A. WEST.

METHOD OF STAYING BUTTON HOLE Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

(No Modei.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. S. A. WEST.

METHOD OF $TAYING BUTTON HOLES.

N0; 373,50? Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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STILLMAN A. VEST, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

METHOD OF STAYING BUTTON-HOLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent R0. 373.507, dated November 22, 1887.

Application tiled May 10. 13rd.

Serial No. 201.768. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STILLMAN A. WEsT, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Method of Staying Button- Holes, of which the following is a full. clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspccification, and in which-- Figure. 1 is a. perspective view showing one side of a number of pieces of shoe or other leather .provided with button..-holes, and illustrating my improved method of staying the holes. Fig. 2-is a similar view of the other side of a number of pieces of shoe or other leather. Fig. 3 isaperspective view of a piece a], showing a series of worked but ton holes stayed according to my invention, an under side view oft-he same. My invention has for its object to provide button-holes of boots or shoes and like articles. My invention consists in the improved method hereinat'terfnlly described, and pointed out in the claim. l Relerring'to the drawings, A represents a piece of shoe or other leather provided with a number of button-holes, B, which are worked in the usual manner. My invention relates to an improved method of staying these button-holes, and in carrying it out I first pass a loop, C,-0tthe thread 'D up through the material, as shown on the sections numbered 1, at a point one side of and near the buttonthe thread over and pass theloop down through the material at the other side of and near said hole, as shown on sections numbered 2. The next and last step is to pass the thread D of which the loop is made through the loop, as shown in sections numbered3, and the thread is drawn with sufficient force to pull out the loop, but its pas sage through the material is prevented by the thread which was passed through it, as stated,

and as shown in the section marked 4, Fig. 2. 3

This completes the stay, the appearance of it on the under or inner side of the shoe being as represented on section 4., Fig. 2, and the appearance on the upper or outside of the shoe being as shown on section 4, Fig. 1.5o

through the material-in some other order or series of steps than those shown and described without departing from the spirit of myinvention.

I claim as my invention- The improved method of staying a series of worked'button-holes, which consists in drawing a loop of thread, separate from thethread by which the bu-ttonholes are worked, up through the material at a point near the end and to one side of a hole, bending the loop to the other side of the hole, drawing it down through the material on that side, then passing an end of thethread of which theloop is formed through the loop, and finally passingthe free end of the thread to the successive button-holes,

staying each in the manner do? scribed.

STILLMAN A WEST.

In presence of- Geo. H. KNIGHT, Enw. S. Kmen' r. 

